In the old days, circa 2004, there were still video store clerks who could recommend a movie if you had trouble deciding what to watch next. These days, you can’t just turn to a clerk while queuing up a movie to stream from Netflix or while standing in front of a human-less Redbox kiosk. …

Twitter Inc. has just added Korean, the seventh language for the San Francisco micro blogging service. Twitter is already huge in Japan, and South Korea could also be an important market. About 70 percent of Twitter users are outside of the United States. …

Internet users are actively involved in their community and in groups, with many of them using tools such as Facebook and Twitter to mobilize, a survey by the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project said. …

The lessons learned from the use of new digital media technologies that helped relief workers after last year’s devastating earthquake in Haiti can be applied to future disasters, according to a new report. …